Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.